Apparatus for applying adhesives.



No. 719,554. PATENTED FEB. 3, 1903.

A. N. dz E. J. BARNES.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHESIVES. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1902.

R0 MODEL.

WITNESSES A TTORNE Y UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALVIN N. BARNES AND ERNEST J. BARNES, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING ADHES IVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 719,554, dated February 3, 1903.

application filed March 19, 1902. Serial No. 99,023. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern: ranged to rest on the corresponding flange Beit known that we, ALVIN N. BARNES and of the vessel 1. The vessel 1 is provided at ERNEST J. BARNES, citizens of the United' opposite sides with lugs 6, arranged to clasp 5 5 States, residing at Scranton, in the county of the tapered ends 7 of removable legs 8, by 5 Lackawanna and State of Pennsylvania, have which the apparatus is arranged to be supinvented certain new and useful Improveported. The vessel 1 is also provided with ments in Apparatus for Applying Adhesives pipe-connection openings 9 and 10, the openand Similar Substances, of which the following 10 being arranged to limit the height of ing is a specification, reference being had water therein and the opening 9 being ar- Io therein to the accompanying drawings. ranged to connect with steam-pipe connec- This invention relates to apparatus for aptions, whereby the water within the space heplying glue, paint, white lead, or other pasty tween the two vessels may be heated by steam, or adhesive substances to the edges or parts if found desirable. Our apparatus may be of materials to be joined, such as flooring, also suitably heated by gas-jets 11,1eadihg 15 parts of furniture, &c.; and the objects of from a suitable pipe 12, or any other method the invention are to provide a rapid and ecoof heating the bath may of course be substinomic device of the kind, to make such appatuted. The receptacle 2 is provided at one ratus adjustable to different requirements, to end with a supporting-roller 13, arranged to facilitate the heating of the contents, and to support the weight of boards or other lumber 2o render such apparatus more efficient than passed over the apparatus. Itisprovided at those heretofore in use. the opposite end with a pair of rollers 14 and To these ends theinvention consists in the 15, arranged to revolve on vertical axes and construction, arrangement, and combination shiftable in slots 16 and 17, whereby the Width of the several parts as are herein specified, between the rollers aforesaid may be varied 25 and illustrated in the accompanying drawto suit the different thicknesses of lumber ings, in whichwhich they are arranged to guide. A take- Figure 1 is a side elevation of an adhesiveup roller 18 is arranged at about the middle applying apparatus constructed according to of the receptacle and is mounted on an axis our invention, part of the side being broken 19, the respective ends of which rest in jour- 0 away to more fully illustrate the relation of nal-supports 20, cast into the sides of the rethe interior parts. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ceptacle, with open sides upward to admit the of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a cross-section journals. A roller 21 is also arranged in the taken on the line 00 at of Fig. 2, the interior end of the receptacle next to the guide-rollers rollers being removed. Fig. 4 is a similar Hand 15, the objectofsaidroller beingto pro- 35 cross-section taken on the line y y of Fig. 2. videarest for the edges of the lumber to which Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the apparatus adhesive has already been applied and to ascomplete. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating varisist in distributing the same. It is arranged ous forms of application-rollers which may within the receptacle in orderthat the drip, if 0 be adopted and used in the apparatus. any, gathering on its surface will fall into the 40 Similar characters of reference denote like receptacle whence it was taken by the take-up and corresponding parts throughout the sevroller 18 aforesaid. The roller 21is journaled eral views. to the walls of the receptacle 2 by journal- Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an supports 22 22, having open sides upward to elongated hollow vessel, preferably made admit sliding in and out of the. journals of 45 from cast-iron and adapted to be used as a said roller. The roller 13 is journaled to lugs kettle or bath to contain water or other liq- 23 23 and is arranged between the projectuid 3, filling the space between the exterior ing arms 24. 24. of the receptacle 2. The rollwalls of the said kettle and an inner recepers 13 and 21 and the take-up roller 18 are arion tacle 2, which is adapted to contain the adranged so that their upper exposed convex 5o hesive or other substance to be applied. The surfaces are in line. In the take-up roller receptacle member 2 is provided with a top shown in Fig. 2 the surfaces 25 and 26 lie in flange 4, extending around its sides and ara plane with the surfaces of the rollers 13 and 21, while the tongue 27, which is an annular projection on the said roller, is ar ranged to run within the groove of matched .board for the purpose of thoroughly distributing the adhesive thereto. In the variations of the take-up roller shown in Fig. 6 the surfaces indicated as 28 are arranged to lie in the sameplane with the surfaces of the rollers 21 and 13 aforesaid. It will be understood, of course, that when any of the forms shown in Fig. 6 are to be used the take-up roller 18 is to be removed and replaced by one of the other forms.

The further operation of the device is readily understood. The take-up roller 18 is arranged to revolve so that the lower portion of its periphery runs through the adhesive 29, whence it carries on its surface sufficient of the'adhesive to apply it to the boards or other objects on which it is to be spread. The board to which the adhesive is to be applied is of course passed over the rollers resting on its edge, being guided in a straight line by the vertical rollers'14 and and directed by them in such manner as to cause its grooved edge to match with the peripheral face of the take-up roller 18.

VRLSS L What we do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an adhesive-applying apparatus of the kind described, a trough-shaped receptacle having a flange adapting it to rest on and close the top of a similarly-shaped bath, journal-supports 20, 20 and 22, 22 cast in the side Walls of said trough, an application-roller and a drip-roller mounted respectively on said supports, the said application-roller arranged to revolve through the contents of the trough, and the said drip-roller being less in diameter, and arranged to clear the contents of the said trough, a horizontal guide-roller 13 mounted on lugs on one end of said trough, a projection on the opposite end of said trough having transverse slots cut therethrough, and a pair of vertically-revolving guide-rollers secured to said projection by shanks extending through said slots, the said vertical rollers being adjustable by sliding in said slots, and having means for securing them into fixed positions therein, all arranged for joint operation, substantially as and forthe purpose specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses. I

ALVIN N. BARNES. ERNEST J. BARNES.

Witnesses:

P. P. SMITH, JOHN LUXENBURGER. 

